Depends what sellers of organic veg are claiming. Health benefits? No evidence to support that. Environment benefits? Perhaps.

My dad once went to his gp with a persistent cough. GP gave him a leaflet on why he wasn't going to prescribe antibiotics (fair enough, but he wasn't asking for antibiotics) and told him to eat more organic food . I asked if my dad had told the GP what he did for a living. He is eminently more qualified than GP when it comes to benefits of organic food (or lack of). Sadly he did not.

Strange question. Wd you sooner eat a lettuce grown the way nature intended? Or lettuce that has been repeatedly sprayed with insecticide? Bearing in mind, the spray's intention is to actually kill insects... and when we eat it, it's not possible to remove all of the spray.

I'm not as fussed on organic fruit and veg, but meat/chicken/dairy will only buy organic. In part because the welfare standards to be classed as organic are way higher than free range/red tractor or whatever. So if I can't get to the farm shop and i have to go to the supermarket, that's what I get

I think my organic box is brilliant, the veg tastes amazing (though often I think this is because the varieties are chosen for flavour rather than because they travel well), we eat veg that is in season, local and the growers are part of a co-operative, so I feel we pay a fair price.

I use organic not because I think it's better for me, but because I think it's better for the environment. Better for the soil and the micro-organisms which live there, better for the animals which eat the invertebrates which live in the soil, better for the river animals which don't have to live in water polluted with run-off... Ok, there's self interest in it too. I also happen to think a healthier environment leads to healthier people. In the long run, if we want to continue growing food in the soil we need healthy soil which means taking care of the things that live there. Etc etc.We all rely on the environment. Pump chemicals into it that don't belong there and I can't see how that can't affect us in the long run. So I buy organic.But I don't think that an organic apple gives me more vitamins than a non-organic one.

I don't recall it all, but there's one scene where people are asked to taste a part of a banana from a plate marked 'organic' and part from a plate labelled 'non-organic'. Some of the tasters go on about how delicious the organic banana is and how the non-organic one doesn't even taste like a banana, but has an artificial banana flavour.

It's then revealed that they've actually just had both halves of the same banana.

It's not about the taste though, it's about not wanting to eat food pumped full of chemicals. We don't know the effects of eating meat injected with antibiotics long term, I'm choosing not to feed it to my DC.